Grading

Earning your Grade

Regardless of whether you are in the lecture-based or self-study section, this course
is offered S/U only. In many ways, this makes grading quite simple.

Earning a Satistfactory

In order for you to earn that S, we would like you to earn an
85% or higher on all of the course assessments. Remember that labs are
graded on participation, not correctness. Therefore, to get a satisfactory,
you may only skip one lab, and you must earn 85% or higher on each assignment.

If you fail to earn 85% or higher on any of the non-lab assessments, you will be
given up to two attempts to redo the assignment. If you are unable to
complete the assignment after three attempts in total, then we will assess the
situtation on a case-by-case basis, provided that you have kept up with all the
deadlines.

Earning an Unsatistfactory

The primary way students get an unsatisfactory in this course is by not keeping up with
the deadlines. All of the assignments and labs have very clear deadlines. In addition,
if you are asked to revise an assignment, then we will give you a deadline with that
revision request. If you fail to meet any of these deadlines, you will receive an
unsatisfactory for the course. Extensions are only provided ahead of time for the
most extreme circumstances.

Another, unlikely, way to earn a satisfactory is to exhaust your retries on the second
and third assignments. As long as you take these seriously in the first place,
we find that students need at most one retry on each of these.

Academic Integrity

Even though this course is graded S/U, you should respect academic integrity. Cheating may
seem an easy way out, but in the long run, it really hurts you more than anyone else. You
end up not learning what you should learn, and it does something to your character, to your
self-image. Cheating is not worth it.
Please review these
notes on integrity.